Shané Oosthuizen

It's so entirely infuriating that at every point, Sienna's like, I must tell people they don't know and they will listen to me because this is so terrible.

And at each point, Tom was like, that is not a great idea.

They 100% know.

And she's like, no, I'm going to try.

Female rage was... The lobotomy scene really angered me.

Like, she's sitting there talking to that doctor who just, like, knows nothing about anything.

I can see where the criticism that they aren't distinct comes from and I don't think there was anyone in this that was actually like a super compelling villain, honestly.

But I do think for a story like this where you're talking about like this sort of like society oppressing another group of people, it almost doesn't matter.

Like there could be nothing that you could tell me about any of these men that would be interesting to me.

Like what is interesting to me is like the quint

their struggle what is interesting to me is like Siona finding out about this and having to confront her own biases and her own prejudices um and I kind of um like I almost think that

Potentially, it was intentional.

Potentially, it wasn't on Emma Wong's part that these men all sort of blended together.

But in the real world, some of the scariest things is that none of us are sitting here being like, here's this specific person that we're blaming for the version of Tehran that we live in right now.

There is a...

There was a group of people, there is a group of people, there are many citizens, and all of us contribute to this.

And that's kind of the scariest part.

I read this book over the summer when I was supposed to be rereading Blood Over Bright Haven, called Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker, and it kind of, like, sits on that sort of premise, and it was a horror, and it was, like, chilling.

And I think that, like...

In fantasy, we see a lot of focus on, like, really, like, compelling, like, charismatic villains.